Geographic Coverage

Date of Collection

Sample

Initial interviews were completed with 398 Florida youth
detainees admitted to a regional detention center in the Tampa Bay
area who agreed to participate and were not transferred to the center
from another secure facility. All female detainees and a random sample
of half of the male detainees were invited to participate in the
study.

Universe

All individuals admitted to a regional detention center in
the Tampa Bay area.

Data Source

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1992-03-04

Version Date

2002-06-07

Version History

2002-06-07 The ASCII codebook was converted to PDF.

1992-03-04 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.